Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Marvel Ultimate Alliance Description

How many Marvel characters can you name off the top of your head? Marvel list 1,368 on their website. So why do we see the same handful over and over again? Spider-Man, The X-Men and the Fantastic Four seem to be the only characters that developers are interested in. Wolverine is cool and all, but how many games can you play with him as the star before claws and heightened senses become boring? Along comes Activision with Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and suddenly we have over 20 playable characters and a cast of more than 140, goodies and baddies including characters seldom seen in games such as Thor, Ghost Rider and Electra. Ultimate Alliance is an action RPG and plays much the same as the X-Men: Legends games. However, there are a few differences in the way the game plays. For example, characters are advanced by a series of skins, essentially different costumes that impart different abilities to the characters. For example, Spidey's black symbiote uniform increases his strength and speed. The notable attention to detail here is that all of the skins represent stages of the characters' progressions throughout the comic books they have appeared in. Other than progression, you have a great deal of control over the characters in your super team, including naming the team itself and building the roster of heroes to draw on. There are stats bonuses for using teams that exist in the Marvel Universe, but you can also establish new teams that you have always wanted to see fighting together. Only four characters can be active at a time, but your roster can include more. With 17 locations, a plot by C.B. Cebulski, numerous sub-quests and the fate of the entire Marvel Universe in your hands, Ultimate Alliance will keep Marvel-loving RPG fans playing late into the night.

Create Marvel Dream Team!!! - Experience the full scale of the Marvel universe with a combined cast of over 140 popular comic book characters. Players create, customize and control their ultimate four-person strike team, selecting from an initial roster of 20 playable Super Heroes, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, The Thing, Captain America, Elektra and Thor - and battle notorious Super Villains including Dr. Doom, Galactus and countless others.

Deep, Rich, Customizable - Marvel: Ultimate Alliance offers gamers total team customization. Players can form their favorite Marvel dream team, create their own team name, team icon, team vehicle and establish a team reputation as they play through an original storyline hand crafted by renowned game developer Raven Software and Marvel's own C.B. Cebulski. Additionally, players have more control over leveling up each team member to their liking, or upgrading all team members together to keep their heroes balanced.

Combat, Combat, and More Combat - With new and dynamic combat capabilities, Super Heroes can now fight while airborne, on the ground, and even submerged underwater as they traverse through 17 exotic locales and play out some of the most legendary comic book battles from the Marvel universe. Players will have access to a host of fighting tactics and accessories, including melee combat moves such as grappling, blocking and quick combos, new chargeable Super Hero powers, more environmental objects that can be used as weapons, and unique one and two-handed weapons.

The Fates - Marvel: Ultimate Alliance features a unique storyline where players not only determine the fate of Earth, but also control the fate of the Marvel universe. The missions players accept, the objectives completed, and how players interact with other characters throughout the game will have a direct impact on how the story plays out.

....Indivisible, with Liberty, and Multiplayer for All - In addition to the epic single-player storyline, players can also battle the world's most evil Super Villains alongside friends in both on and offline cooperative story modes. This robust multiplayer component also features a Competitive Mode - where the game keeps track of various in-game stats so players can see how well they stack up against one another - affecting the amount of experience points and how equipment is distributed.